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    In virtue ethics, the motivation and justification of act... — Carmelics
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    In virtue ethics, the motivation and justification of actions are inseparable from the character traits of the acting agent

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    • 1.Virtue ethics assesses the ethical quality of actions in terms of thick character concepts
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    • 2.Character traits are constitutive of, not merely instrumental to, moral action on the virtue ethics account
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    • 1.Kantian deontology grounds moral motivation in rational duty, entirely independent of the agent's character traits or dispositional states.
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    • 2.An agent can perform morally justified actions from pure practical reason while possessing vicious character, as Kant's universalizability test makes no reference to virtue.
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    • 3.If motivation and justification can be grounded in reason alone, they are not necessarily inseparable from character traits, refuting the claim's universality.
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    • 1.Gilbert Ryle's distinction between dispositional and episodic concepts shows character traits are behavioral tendencies, not constitutive elements of individual action-tokens.
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    • 2.If character traits are merely probabilistic dispositions rather than constituents of actions, the justification of a specific act can be evaluated independently of the agent's standing traits.
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    Finally, as an alternative to consequentialism and deontology both of which consider “thin” concepts such as “goodness” and “rightness” as essential to morality, virtue ethics proposes to understand morality—and assess the ethical quality of actions—in terms of “thick” concepts such as “kindness”, “honesty”, “sincerity” and “justice”. These, and other excellent traits of character are virtues (see the entry on virtue ethics). As virtue ethics speaks quite a different language from the other tw
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